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Michael Stanclift

The inventor of the World Wide Web is now on the Fediverse 👋 @timbl

27 September at 16:00 | Open on vmst.io
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Michael Stanclift

Threads users who have federated their accounts can now see replies from other platforms, but not reply to the replies (yet) theverge.com/2024/6/25/2418522

25 June at 16:08 | Open on vmst.io
Michael Stanclift

Seeing reporting that Mastodon has reached 15 million user accounts, but this is wholly incorrect.

My own crawler shows that from 11,478 instances the total number is 8.46 million accounts.

FediDB shows from 11,242 instances the total number is 7.31 million.

Fediverse Observer shows from 10,551 instances the total number is 9.07 million.

libera.site shows 12,669 instances and 8.77 million.

The official Join Mastodon API shows 9,724 instances and 8.59 million.

Why the variance? Because, decentralized network. 🤷

Across all five data sources it's approximately 11,133 active instances and 8.44 million accounts.

Not 15 million.

Seeing reporting that Mastodon has reached 15 million user accounts, but this is wholly incorrect.

My own crawler shows that from 11,478 instances the total number is 8.46 million accounts.

FediDB shows from 11,242 instances the total number is 7.31 million.

Fediverse Observer shows from 10,551 instances the total number is 9.07 million.

19 March at 15:46 | Open on vmst.io
Lauren Weinstein

@vmstan ProTip: Don't make a big deal about trying to find ways to calculate LOWER user numbers than other sources have calculated. PR101.

19 March at 15:58 | Open on mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
FinchHaven

@vmstan

I challenged the author of those posts everyone is hyping recently about their data collection and data analysis and they refused to answer any questions

This was the Very Olden Times(s) when the author actually had their screenshots titled "Fediverse"

I asked why their datasets kept showing bizarre, unexplained spikes that caused radical rescaling ot the graph and they would not respond

Whoever is put out those posts is just running clickbait IMO

This is from back in November of 2022 by the file timestamp

@vmstan

I challenged the author of those posts everyone is hyping recently about their data collection and data analysis and they refused to answer any questions

This was the Very Olden Times(s) when the author actually had their screenshots titled "Fediverse"

I asked why their datasets kept showing bizarre, unexplained spikes that caused radical rescaling ot the graph and they would not respond
19 March at 16:01 | Open on sfba.social
slyborg

@vmstan Charitable interpretation is that this is the total number of users *ever* including now gone instances, which would of course be double counting since most of such users would have migrated elsewhere.

To some extent this is arguing over how tall the shortest dwarf is - Fediverse total users ever is a small fraction of Threads monthly active, for example. “Twitter minus Nazis” turns out not to be a generally compelling reason to switch. Which probably explains the enduring existence of Nazis.

19 March at 16:41 | Open on vmst.io
Michael Stanclift

There is a new Mastodon composer in PR 28119. It features a new design including new background colors. No more blinding white light when you go to post in dark mode!

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p
23 January at 16:08 | Open on vmst.io
Michael Stanclift

Based on the latest version data from fedidb.org/software/mastodon/v I've summarized the current state of Mastodon version deployments.

- 61% of instances are now on the latest branch or main (4.2/4.3) 🙌
- 2% of instances are running versions which are no longer supported (Before 3.5) 🧟‍♂️
- 8% of instances are running versions which will be end of life at the end of October (4.0) 👀

#MastoAdmin who aren't keeping current, especially if you're still on a release that has EOL dates, what is holding you back?

Based on the latest version data from fedidb.org/software/mastodon/v I've summarized the current state of Mastodon version deployments.

- 61% of instances are now on the latest branch or main (4.2/4.3) 🙌
- 2% of instances are running versions which are no longer supported (Before 3.5) 🧟‍♂️
- 8% of instances are running versions which will be end of life at the end of October (4.0) 👀
17 Oct 2023 at 16:00 | Open on vmst.io
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My Actual Brain

@vmstan It might be worth ranking them by number of users instead. I could see a small amount of people deploying their own server and then neglecting it. I have been guilty of that with other services.

17 Oct 2023 at 16:19 | Open on fosstodon.org
Michael Stanclift

There have been two sets of CVEs that were released for Mastodon this year. One set on July 6, and one set on September 19.

The July 6 set was particularly serious, and there was a big push to get folks to upgrade off 4.1.2 and other vulnerable branches.

According to FediDB data, 16.2% of instances are remaining on versions still exposed by the July 6 CVEs or an unknown end of life versions that wasn't evaluated but may contain those same issues.

33.0% are impacted by the September 19 CVEs.

#MastoAdmin

There have been two sets of CVEs that were released for Mastodon this year. One set on July 6, and one set on September 19.

The July 6 set was particularly serious, and there was a big push to get folks to upgrade off 4.1.2 and other vulnerable branches.

According to FediDB data, 16.2% of instances are remaining on versions still exposed by the July 6 CVEs or an unknown end of life versions that wasn't evaluated but may contain those same issues.

17 Oct 2023 at 16:19 | Open on vmst.io
Eelco Maljaars 🇳🇱 🇪🇺

@vmstan When deploying mastodon using helm on kubernetes, most of the work is done for you. But if you run it on plain virtual machines, there is actual work to do for every upgrade. Checking dependencies, running upgrade tasks, etc. So that makes upgrades diffficult or at least 'more interesting'. That could hold people back #mastoadmin

17 Oct 2023 at 16:47 | Open on mastodon.nl
Michael Stanclift

Stop advocating for Lemmy.

kbin is where it's at.

That is all.

10 Jun 2023 at 16:41 | Open on vmst.io
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Benjamin Loyle

@vmstan Looks like it’s worth hoping for at least.

10 Jun 2023 at 18:08 | Open on vmst.io
frater mus

@vmstan I dunno. Lemmy seems to work, for some definition of "work". OTOH My first interaction with kbin (an upvote/favourite) caused an error, and 50% of my replies disappear -- they aren't even counted on my profile metrics. I don't mind posting to the void (tiny number of users), but posts should at least *post* to that void.

twitter -> mastodon has been a great experience. Reddit -> lemmy/kbin not so much.

10 Jun 2023 at 19:02 | Open on vmst.io
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Michael Stanclift

Docker is turning off the Mastodon foundation’s Docker Hub account unless they start paying, which they’re not willing to do.

If you’re running an instance with containers, they’ll now be available from ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon.

#mastoadmin

15 Mar 2023 at 14:10 | Open on vmst.io
Michael Stanclift

From what I’ve heard the Docker Hub change doesn’t target Mastodon, but any organization that was on their free tier.

So you’ll want to check any other FOSS projects and see if they’re relocating their images as well.

15 Mar 2023 at 16:17 | Open on vmst.io
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